Europeana Data Model Antoine Isaac Scientific Coordinator, Europeana American Art Collaborative LOD Meeting Smithsonian American Art Museum, April 29, 2013
Jan 19, 2015
Europeana Data Model
Antoine Isaac
Scientific Coordinator, Europeana
American Art Collaborative LOD Meeting
Smithsonian American Art Museum, April 29, 2013
What Europeana gets (and makes available)
Descriptive metadata
Link to digital objects online
So far: ESE records
europeana:dataProvider
europeana:provider
europeana:isShownAt
europeana:isShownBy
europeana:object
europeana:rights with controlled values (Public Domain, CC-BY, etc)
dc:contributor, dc:creator, dc:date, dc:format, dc:identifier, dc:language, dc:publisher, dc:relation, dc:source, dcterms:alternative, dcterms:extent, dcterms:temporal, dcterms:medium, dcterms:created, dcterms:provenance, dcterms:issued, dcterms:conformsTo, dcterms:hasFormat, dcterms:isFormatOf, dcterms:hasVersion, dcterms:isVersionOf, dcterms:hasPart, dcterms:isPartOf, dcterms:isReferencedBy, dcterms:references, dcterms:isReplacedBy, dcterms:replaces dcterms:isRequiredBy, dcterms:requires dcterms:tableOfContents
europeana:type
IssuesESE is a flat model
No links between cultural objects or between objects and context entities (persons, places)
just strings (with no language info)
Mixed data
real object, digital representation, provider – all in one record
A lot of mapping quality problems.
• E.g., dc:date should be a date related to the original object but is often the date of digitisation
EDM Requirements
1. Distinguish the real object (painting, book) from its digital representation
2. Distinguish the object from its metadata record
3. Allow multiple records for same objectcontaining potentially contradictory statements about an object
4. Support for objects that are composed of other objects
hierarchies
5. Be compatible with different levels of description
Generic/interoperable vs. specific/domain-centered
6. Flexible support for describing contextual resources, including concepts
7. Re-use and extend elements from existing standards
A Collaborative EffortEuropeana v1.0 WP3
Ca. 60 participants
“Fish tank” development
Many presentations in the network and beyond
(Evolving) specifications available since 2009
Cross-community development
Involving library, archive and museum experts
http://europeanalabs.eu/wiki/WP1CommunityMeetingMuseums
A Collaborative Effort
EDM makes Europeana ready to ingest metadata that is closer to specific community concerns
But still mapped to common elements
Europeana & partners can develop EDM “profiles” upon which everyone could build specific functionality
Based on best practices from sector or domain level
EDM is consolidated with partners who re-use it
Europeana providers, DPLA
EDM Classes
EDM Properties (excluding ESE)
General points
• All resources should have an identifier
• Most values can be either be a literal or a reference
• It is recommended to use xml:lang attributes on literals
• Use the most precise (sub) property available.
• Later, providers will be able to specialize to EDM
• Re-use elements from other vocabularies
• SKOS, Dublin Core, RDA, CIDOC-CRM (via mappings)
ore:Aggregation(Identifier of aggregation)
edm:WebResource(Identifier of web resource)
edm:ProvidedCHO(Identifier of real object)
An aggregation with a provided CHO and web resource(s)
The three core classes
edm:aggregatedCHO
edm:hasView
Properties for edm:Aggregation
Mandatory:
edm:aggregatedCHO
edm:dataProvider
edm:isShownBy or
edm:isShownAt
edm:provider
edm:rights
Optional:
edm:hasView
edm:object
dc:rights
edm:ugc
The aggregation represents the set of related resources about one real object contributed by one provider. It carries the metadata that is about the whole set
edm:aggregation with metadataProperties for the ore:Aggregation http://www.mimo-db.eu/UEDIN/214
EDM properties Corresponding values in the original dataedm:aggregatedCHO #UEDIN:214
edm:hasView http://www.mimo-db.eu/media/UEDIN/VIDEO/0032195v.mpg
edm:hasView http://www.mimo-db.eu/media/UEDIN/AUDIO/0032195s.mp3
edm:hasView http://www.mimo-db.eu/media/UEDIN/IMAGE/0032195c.jpg
edm: dataProvider University of Edinburgh
edm:Provider MIMO - Musical Instrument Museums Online
edm:rights http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
edm:isShownBy http://www.mimo-db.eu/media/UEDIN/IMAGE/0032195c.jpg
edm:object http://www.mimo-db.eu/media/UEDIN/IMAGE/0032195c.jpg
Properties for edm:ProvidedCHO
dc:contributor, dc:creator, dc:date, dc:format, dc:identifier, dc:language, dc:publisher, dc:relation, dc:source, dcterms:alternative, dcterms:extent, dcterms:temporal, dcterms:medium, dcterms:created, dcterms:provenance, dcterms:issued, dcterms:conformsTo, dcterms:hasFormat, dcterms:isFormatOf, dcterms:hasVersion, dcterms:isVersionOf, dcterms:hasPart, dcterms:isPartOf, dcterms:isReferencedBy, dcterms:references, dcterms:isReplacedBy, dcterms:replaces dcterms:isRequiredBy, dcterms:requires dcterms:tableOfContents
edm:isNextInSequence
edm:isDerivativeOf
edm:currentLocation…
The ProvidedCHO is the cultural heritage object which is the subject of the package of data that has been submitted to Europeana.
ExampleProperties for the edm: ProvidedCHO: #UEDIN:24
EDM properties Corresponding values in the original data
dc:date Circa 1840
dc:description Technical description: Brass; ligature fitting on bell section at joint; stockings on main slides. with one coil, angled to face forwards. Repair History: Main slide possibly not original (tenon of slide section of joint is tapered, bell section joint for cylindrical tenon)
dc:title Buccin trombone.Nominal pitch: B?
dc:type http://www.mimo-db.eu/InstrumentsKeywords/4378
edm:type IMAGE
WebResource
One or more digital representations of the provided cultural heritage object.
Properties:
dc:rights
edm:rights
dc:format
dcterms:isPartOf
edm:isNextInSequence
…
edm:WebResources with metadata
Properties for the edm:WebResource http://www.mimo-db.eu/media/UEDIN/VIDEO/0032195v.mpgEDM properties Corresponding values in the original dataedm:rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Properties for the edm:WebResource http://www.mimo-db.eu/media/UEDIN/AUDIO/0032195s.mp3
EDM properties Corresponding values in the original data
edm:rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Properties for the edm:WebResource http://www.mimo-db.eu/media/UEDIN/IMAGE/0032195c.jpgEDM properties Corresponding values in the original dataedm:rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
NB: digital representations may have different rightsCould have format data etc.
Contextual resources
edm:Agent
foaf:name
skos:altLabel
rdaGr2:biographicalInformation
rdaGr2:dateOfBirth
…
skos:Concept
skos:prefLabel
skos:altLabel
skos:broader
skos:related
skos:definition….
edm:TimeSpanskos:prefLabel
dcterms:isPartOf
edm:begin
edm:end
….
edm:Placewgs84_pos:lat
wgs84_pos:long
skos:prefLabel
skos:note
dcterms:isPartOf….
Example - edm:Place and skos:Concept
Properties for skos:Concept http://www.mimo-db.eu/InstrumentsKeywords/4378 EDM properties Corresponding values in the original dataskos:PrefLabel xml:lang="en" Buccin
Properties for skos:Concept http://www.mimo-db.eu/HornbostelAndSachs/356 EDM properties Corresponding values in the original dataskos:PrefLabel xml:lang="en" 423.22 Labrosones with slides
Properties for edm:Place http://sws.geonames.org/3017382/ EDM properties Corresponding values in the original dataskos:PrefLabel xml:lang="en" France
Model for representing metadata enrichments
Contextual resources from providers
Their thesauri, gazetteers, etc.
Enrichment (multilingual) by Europeana
Geonames, GEMET, dbPedia
Enrichment by third-parties?
Europeanaaggregation
Enriched metadata
v
Provider aggregation
Multiple providers, multiple aggregations
Take-home message
Not perfect, but making progress
Data granularity
Data interlinking and enriching
Re-use and interoperability
More at http://pro.europeana.eu/edm-documentation